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Scala : Plain storage of sensitive information in a cookie

Classification

Overview

The application stores sensitive information in cleartext in a cookie.

Attackers can use widely-available tools to view the cookie and read the sensitive information. Even if the information is encoded in a way that is not human-readable, certain techniques could determine which encoding is being used, then decode the information.

Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerabilities take the third place in the “OWASP Top 10 2017” web-application vulnerabilities ranking.

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